It came out on laser disc years ago in a seperated form and was trailed on the inside of the 'Retrun Of Spinal Tap' vid in 1998. A long time coming.
There was a Q article in 95-ish that explained the archive material. Will try to retrieve it, but I remember audition tapes and all 'Saturday Night Live' footage was included.
I doubt they'll elongate the film, just tag stuff on the end.
Goody.
I've got the Laserdisc. It's the film, with over an hour of cut footage. There's also some pop videos, and half hour long 'pilot' version of the movie that was made to drum up funding for the film. There was also the screenplay and some pics of merchandise etc All in all quite an extensive package, but then it did cost about seventy bloody quid! There's also a LAserdisc which I have of a gig they did in the early 90's at the Albert Hall, I think, with some very funny new interview footage.
Is it going to be on DVD. I have waited so long for them to pull their fingers out and release this stuff to a non laser disc audience
I've got a new DVD player: the volume button goes all the way up to 11.
I was on the verge of buying a laser disc player purely so I could buy the complete Tap experience. But I didn't....
God, this is going to be good.
Looking at the site it seems to me the release is only in America (and unless you've chipped your DVD then you won't be able to play that on British DVD players) Does anyone have any idea if they plan to release it in the UK
The extended release included footage of Artie Fufkin hitting himself with food, which is right up there with the best of the original movie if you ask me.
Did anyone else see the NME interview with Tap in December 1991? There was lots of stuff in it about Derek joining a Christian rock band and Nigel being kidnapped by the Swiss. And something about a support band called Lame too. I think I've still got it somewhere...
Ive got Spinal Tap when they were on The Johnathan Ross Show from about eight,nine years ago.It is an interview with the band with the singer dressed in wetsuit chic taking the piss out of Axl Rose .They also play a number at the end of the show.This footage will never be available on DVD .....probably.So ha ha Ive got something you will never have,which makes me rule over all of you.Unless you lot taped it as well,which I hope you havent.Actually the quality of my recording is almost unwatchable and the last time I saw it in 1994 I think I accidently taped the beginning of Deliverence over the end.So if anybodys got a good copy of it they could send me so I can watch it once and file it next to my Tarrent on TV collection and forget about it Id be grateful.
Now listen here. My dad spoke to the man who bought the rights to Spinal Tap and he said that he would release the film with outtakes, pilots, a new commentry track and everything on both region 1 and 2 DVD. Good news, eh?
Incidently, isn't comedy crap on DVD? Apart from Volume one of the best of Monty Python and Blackadder: the worst, sorry, FIRST series, and Men Behaving Badly again, and the apallingly bad FRIENDS, for fuck's sake, it's an empty place just waiting for humour. BBC, bring out The Young Ones, The Goodies, The Day Today, Fawlty Towers, and anything else you have in your archive. And don't skimp on the extras either! The DVD revolution is here!!!! nearly
Now listen here. My dad spoke to the man who bought the rights to Spinal Tap and he said that he would release the film with outtakes, pilots, a new commentry track and everything on both region 1 and 2 DVD. Good news, eh?
Incidently, isn't comedy crap on DVD? Apart from Volume one of the best of Monty Python and Blackadder: the worst, sorry, FIRST series, and Men Behaving Badly again, and the apallingly bad FRIENDS, for fuck's sake, it's an empty place just waiting for humour. BBC, bring out The Young Ones, The Goodies, The Day Today, Fawlty Towers, and anything else you have in your archive. And don't skimp on the extras either! The DVD revolution is here!!!! nearly
>everything on both region 1 and 2 DVD. Good
>news, eh?
FWIW, the Special Edition laserdisc version of This Is Spinal Tap, complete with all the extra gubbins, has already been out on DVD in 1998, as part of the Criterion Collection.
Unfortunately Criterion lost the rights almost immediately after it was released, and so they had to pull the DVD from sale - hence it's now one of the single most collectable DVDs there is (expect to pay over $100 on eBay).
Hopefully the new release will contain *at least* everything that was on the Criterion disc, with some more stuff besides.
>Blackadder: the worst, sorry, FIRST series
Eh? The first series is *much* better than some people seem to want to make out - I like the different character traits, although I can understand why they changed them from the second series onwards.
It's the *third* series that's crap - some very, very weak jokes in there.
No way! The third series - especially the Dictionary episode - is classic. The first is OK, and looks terrific, but nowhere near as good as the others
>No way! The third series - especially the Dictionary episode - is classic. The first is OK, and looks terrific, but nowhere near as good as the others
Dictionary's my all-time favourite! (Closely followed by Money (series 2), then probably Potato (series 2), then Series 4 one where Edmund murders General Melchett's pigeon (title?), then the one from Series 3 with the actors (Kenneth Connor and Hugh Paddick). Classics all.
Still doesn't mean series 1's no good though. It's more a series of great moments rather than classic episodes though.
>>No way! The third series - especially the
>>Dictionary episode - is classic
Hmmm, that's one of the better episodes, I'll grant you, but IMHO the third series has a very high proportion of weak, formula gags - too many "Baldrick, you're as X as an X thing" (yawn...)
It was all a bit flabby and simply lacked the razor edge that made 2 and 4 (and, to a lesser extent, 1) so wonderful.
>Hmmm, that's one of the better episodes, I'll grant you, but IMHO the third series has a very high proportion of weak, formula gags - too many "Baldrick, you're as X as an X thing" (yawn...)
>
I'd argue that Goes Forth really piled on those simile gags (even Richard Curtis admitted as much). Best one was probably "We've advanced about as far as an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping".
But there are far, far too many of them.
I thought everyone with a DVD player had it hacked/chipped- a mate of mine bought one and the bloke in the shop hacked it for him